skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2000 or 2008 didn't feel like it was over. 2000 felt like too far too soon undelivered promises dried up the market. 2008 felt like wall street fraud killed the economy for all.

Today we are living in a reality created by FAANGs (and those who copied) who over recruited everyone so that other FAANGs could not get them. Employee count became connected to valuations. Which created insane fake demand which increased graduate numbers and let companies import people. Companies like facebook doubled their staff count in a year and a half during covid lockdowns.

Then interest rates went up and companies realized they don't need most people and then AI hit and shifted more budgets.

Recover to when? Part of the recovery is happening. Students are choosing other majors. Importing people will probably slow. The ratio of people to jobs is getting slightly better with people leaving the field. As wages and interest rates keep getting lower we'll hit a point where developers will be in demand again but AI might have taken your role by that point. Not to worry new jobs will be created somewhere doing something AI can't.
I have a few friends (and family members thereof) within relatively close proximity (either walkable or a <5 minute drive), and it's indeed been pretty handy. A couple of us have even talked about someday together investing in someplace we can all live (be it a multiplex, some chunk of land with a few double-wides, or - only half-seriously - one of the mansions that periodically hit Zillow in our city), much like what's described in the article.

The big issue is that friendships ain't permanent, and navigating the financial and legal implications of jointly owning real estate entails a need for quite a bit of permanence. I and the friends in question believe we trust each other enough to make it work (should we ever all be sufficiently financially secure to pull the trigger on that plan), but it's hard to be sure.
dancing grannies is definitely not a result of social technology haha, but yes, old people culture in china is top tier
While you are right, I think the evidence points to deficiencies in depth and breath.

There are plenty or published articles discussing why the mega-interviews became a thing when employers started to realize CS graduates could not develop software.

And then there's the H1B argument. If our educational pipeline is delivering people with solid skill sets, hiring H1B's should be rare because you could not justify it.

Better yet, given the cost of higher education in the US: Why are universities not graduating the absolute best professionals in the world? Every single H1B hire is one more data point in support of the idea that our universities are not doing a good job.

Before someone mentions pay, I looked around and there seem to be multiple studies indicating that H1B's are getting paid on-par with US workers.

Once again, if an H1B hire is justified, it means our universities did not produce candidates with competitive skill sets. Then, why are we paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for these degrees and financially enslaving people for decades?
It’s a nice story but Apple can change the implementation any time they want or are forced to.
I have some Chargie units, but found them finicky enough with the bluetooth connection that I've abandoned them for devices' built-in 80% charge limit, even if the exact charging pattern isn't quite what I'd like.
If you can't inspect it that just means you don't know how to use Ghidra/Hopper. ObjC is incredibly easy to decompile and Swift isn't much harder.
This person has no idea what they're talking about. "Code generated by a computer"?
Please DOGE, do to US's federal spending what milei did to the Argentina government. Argentina's inflation now is at a four year low.
Google search hallucinates Encanto 2
ADP sends hashes of the plaintext and filenames to Apple effectively in the clear (non e2ee).

If only you and three other people have a unique file, Apple knows you are a group.
'Y2K seems like a joke now, but in 1999 people were freaking out'
No. We knew this already because it's evident in the output. For example, when MidJourney can perfectly replicate the visual style of a specific artist whose work is copyrighted.
Insofar as the photos aren't getting uploaded to Apple for this, that seems a bit extreme.

(We could argue about it, but personally I think some kind of hash doesn't qualify.)
> He called Intel tech support but was brushed off

I laughed when I read this. It’s hard enough to get support for basic issues, good luck explaining a hardware bug.
To play Apple's advocate, this system will probably never be perfect, and stand up to full scrutinity from everyone on the planet. And they also need the most people possible activated as it's an adverserial feature.

The choice probably looks to them like:

A - play the game, give everyone a heads up, respond to all feedback, and never ship the feature

B - YOLO it, weather the storm, have people forget about it after the holiday, and go on with their life.

Wether B works is up to debate, but that was probably their only chance to have it ship from their POV.
Having lived in Asia I disagree it's a "high trust" society. I also see it described as "less individualistic and more concerned about the group".

What I observed was a deference to authority. Harsh government punishment for anti-social behavior is accepted and seen as the "role" of the government. While people in Anglo countries might protest against unfair government action, in Asian countries it's much more rare. People in Singapore grumble about how the government might punish behavior, but they keep those conversation to their family and close friends.

In terms of trust or concern, it doesn't extend much beyond the immediate family unit in Asia. I would say respect or concern for strangers is higher in Western countries Many people in Asia are happy to rip off others in Asia (if they think they can get away with it), but even the deadbeat cousin gets money from the family because "it's the right thing to do".
Sponsored content. Have come across my company doing the same. There are no to few rules about labeling as such.
if he is set of pilaging what he can for the next two years - this is 100% right. he’ll get buttfucked in 2026 midterms like in 2018… but I think he does want at least 4 years of full power and will want the votes for one more election cycle
I don't think that's a fair characterization of what they're doing.
It has happened before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airline...
Looks like back and front landing gear are not deployed. Highly unlikely for that to happen due to a bird hit.
A) Google refused to censor in the mainland and that’s why they got blocked, B) Google employees had a walkout when they tried to go back to China. C) I’ve never seen an Apple employee protest anything.

Now, that happened under a different type of Google (I’m sure they’ll go back now that they torched the culture), but Apple employees who walk around SV like they are better than everybody else - which people on their privacy teams very much do - are pathetically deluded.

All the megacorps are evil, and while Apple likes to put on a holier-than-thou act, it’s just as much bullshit for them to claim they value human rights as it is for Google to say they value privacy.

They value money, that’s it.
This policy needs a refresh - there are many issues with the H1B program today - a good article if you're interested: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-...

We should be wary billionaires are controlling these policies.

Bernie Sanders did this interview a decade ago and he was right, unchecked immigration is not in the economic interest of the working class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0
But what are the products from them that implement HE and that consumers are using? Microsoft, IBM, Intel, and Google have all released libraries for HE, and there's Duality SecurePlu, but as far as actual consumer products, Apple's caller ID phone number lookup and other features in iOS 18 is very possibly the first.

As far as why it's not more of a buzzword, it's far too in the weeds and ultimately consumers either trust you or they don't. And even if they don't trust you, many of them are still going to use Apple/Google/Facebook system anyway.
I read a claim that they had gutted their verification team several years ago in response to Zen since they claimed that they needed to develop faster and verification was slowing them down. Then not that long ago we started hearing about the raptor lake issues.
I wonder if anyone has tried training an LLM on known spam and measured it's performance? Such an LLM would ideally be run local to the mail server for maximum privacy.
Congratulations. Rust is really a great language. I wrote a small rust web server and its been a year and it seems to work great on $5 vps without any issue.
For those preferring old: <https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1holbp4/jeju_air_...>
Check out Zincland's POWDER, old school open source SDL roguelike. Best played on Nintendo DS; if you have a DSi you can hack it and drop it onto the DS card. The PC version is also very good but less pocketable. Avoid the phone versions.

It's a very, very deep and understated game.
I'm on Debian stable, not OpenBSD, but SpamAssassin + razor + pyzor works really well. Roughly 1 spam per month, and 1-2 false positives a year. This is for an email address that has been used and openly spread widely for 25+ years.

The real work is making sure that outbound mail gets delivered, but even that is just making sure you have a clean IP and setting up reverse DNS + DMARC/SPF/DKIM...
I'm a 100% supporter of getting nice trains throughout America, but trains are relatively expensive for long distances. I don't know why, but if you compare ticket prices (globally!) its often not cheaper to take a train. In my experience, trains are a superior experience, and worth spending more on, but generally not cheaper. The ultra-low cost airlines (especially outside the US) are really hard to compete with on price.

For example, the Shinkansen in Japan (which I totally recommend!) is usually over $100 USD. Which is pretty similar to a flight price. This pattern repeats in Europe as well.

My friend just traveled London -> Edinburgh in the last few weeks, and found the train 2x the cost compared to RyanAir or EasyJet.

Even in the US, this pattern holds. Seattle -> LA costs $50-150 by plane, depending on the airline (3hrs). By train, it's 35hrs and $150. Its a lovely train ride, if you have a weekend to dedicate.
I write all my scripts with the hash bang as "#! /bin/bash" so even though fish is my interactive shell, I still use bash for all shell scripts. I think the restrictions you mention only apply if you use "#! /bin/sh" rather than bash specifically.
That’s a terrible thing to say.
I can only think of a multiple-salary for onboarding period scam, where they llm all their job and get fired everywhere after a month with a couple years worth of money. You can’t really fire a hired guy without paying them at least once in US, can you?
Fiblets
too expensive mate… we live in year our Lord 2024 - no one is building 2000 buildings that will be vacant as everyone is working from home (or India…) :)

this requires a simple saas solution - someone’s working on this for sure already as it is already a big issue
Spaces Between the Stars
I wonder what this means for the iPhone SE (3rd gen). It's still in production, will they stop selling it in the EU?
I would claim that even 500 million parameters could be considered large.
Aren't there third party, for-hire, spam and malware filtering services? Have you tried them?
Should probably have a [2019] tag, as things do change through time.

I always enjoy the self-hosting explanations. Starting with mail is an interesting choice though. It's relatable to most people, but also very complex compared with a tougher DNS setup, DKIM, SPF, all that stuff.

I'm not sure what the right approach is to maintain good security, and then open up the right ports for simple services.
Couldn’t these PCs run 386BSD?
What’s the reject rate?
Not enabling something by default is pretty close to not having it at all. Accessibility is a reasonable exception where it makes sense to have the features even though they are off by default.

I mostly think the reaction to this article is overblown because it appeals popular ideas here about big tech. I think one should be wary of Apple’s claims about privacy: the reason is competition with Google and so they want users to be distrustful of the kinds of features that Google are better at implementing (I don’t want to say Apple isn’t trying to do the right thing either – if you look at accessibility, the competition was very bad for a lot of things for a long time and Apple was good despite the lack of commercial pressure). But I think one should also be wary of articles that make you angry and tell you what you suspected all along. (eg see the commenter elsewhere who doesn’t care about the details and is just angry). It’s much easier to spot this kind of rage-bait piece when it is targeting ‘normal people’ rather than the in-group.
I doubt the RAM is added up. I think that’s only a feature reserved for their NVLinked HPC series cards. In fact, without nvlink, I don’t see how you’d connect them together to compute a single task in a performant and efficient way.
Part of the way this reading system was sold was as a way to "equalize" outcomes, so it too was "part of the grift."
You are correct, I'm over here stuck on the applicant side, feeling like both sides of this transaction are suffering from the same lack of trust

I therefore fail to see how introducing another party that the hiring managers have to cede their trust to solves our mutual lack of trust

If your company (since your reply implies that you are at least "hiring manager adjacent") merely needs that testing center to start hiring people, I'm totally open to going on Monday and starting a company to provide that service. I even already have a 4k security camera system I can wire up the room to provide DVR access to your interview candidate's session

But my strong suspicion is that such a video camera enabled room for a fee is not, in fact, the obstacle to getting people hired
Mother Nature can't stop evolving eyes (2023)
Haha. Pedantry for future diyrs

You can start easier today (thanks thoughtful USian industry!) from, otc
https://www.himedialabs.com/us/m643a-mineral-modified-glutam...

Following, e.g. (thanks academia!)
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46007644_Enhancemen...

Also note they are better thought of as anaerobic.

Also diyrs, if you're to wean off the Man, keep detailed notes (or at least back up your pdfs on tape)!

Source: have tried basic MSGM "at home" for easier anaerobes, reasonably successful

Found this, also seems diyable, not chips, but li batt anodes from beachsand (thanks the lowest end of springer-demia!)
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep05623
Anyone care to publish AMD training/inference benchmarks using ROCm? They’re hard to find.
Vocational education vs. academic.

Basically you find a grad right now and make them do a coding test. Something is broken there.

A degree could include the vocational qualification as a 1 year study, but having the vocation qualification alone would save youngsters a lot of money and reduce the burden on hiring. You could even still interview coding questions but the application process can remove the spam/ai bullshit to some extent. "Can they code?" is answered.
If you are willing and able to put together the type of system described in the OP (a workstation-class PC, with multiple discrete GPUs and often multiple power supplies), a Mac never makes sense. There are hardware options available at essentially every price point that beat (in some cases drastically) the performance and memory capacity of a Mac.

And I say this at the risk of being called pedantic, but a cluster of Mac minis would have zero VRAM.
Are you saying we shouldn't hold Apple accountable for privacy encroachments then?
> Your post above is a failed attempt at a petty gotcha.

Aside from the poster I was talking to not appearing to agree with you (they immediately made another Elon post), no, it isn’t. If upon seeing the phrase “I don’t like hamburger” I am swept up with an urge to dunk and say “re evaluate your life choices for talking about hamburger” it is very obvious that I’ve taken my time to tell you that I have strong feelings about hamburger and take issue with the position taken, not the subject matter.

Seeing as they then wrote “elon hate is real” moments after my response, it is doubly clear that the issue isn’t mention of the guy but rather any negative mention of the guy.

If I go out of my way to police any negative mention of something, that is a direct expression of how I value that thing.

(The post has since been edited to “obsession with elon is real”, which, yes, it is. Some folks absolutely cannot scroll past that name without it sparking an urge to dunk)
I actually think this might push me towards using ChatGPT more. I just hate having to type, "What version was the iPhone in 2016?" rather than "iphone 2016 version number" lol
The OP is evidence. My phone had it turned on which I think is evidence. Together this feels like reasonably strong evidence but maybe something even stronger is easy to find. Vaguely related: https://markxu.com/strong-evidence
I don’t know why that would be necessary. The vast majority of the spam I get is obviously spam from the subject line alone.
This is how I thought your reply would go unfortunately. I ask for evidence and you act like you don't even understand the concept, conveniently avoiding every absurd claim you just made.
Yes

https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/28/24330733/apple-pulls-lig...
B47R is indeed TLC, rated for only 1000 cycles (and 35k in SLC mode, at 1/3 the capacity.) There's also the question of whether this is "true" Micron NAND, or SpecTek which is basically Micron's rejects (and rated for even fewer cycles; only 300 in the case of their B16A.)
I “devolved” mostly along the same path. Bespoke shell to OMZSH to Zsh to Bash.

Zsh has a few nasty Bashism footgun incompatibilities. If I remember correctly the worst one is with how globbing / “*” works, which is why that is guarded with an option.

My main reason for sticking with Bash is that it’s everywhere, and the places where it isn’t try very hard to support the most-used featureset of Bash.

A stock Bash shell does feel a little naked without my dotfiles though :)
Actually yes! In this case it was lazy shorthand.

Same result for the job hunt progress but persisting still.

I appreciate the feedback greatly. I’m sure there is a way to tell the story better.
That was a great phone. Still miss it.
For more context this investigative series is an interesting look at this style of reading education.

https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
Well, and are they underfunded or not?
You have your full name linked in your profile. Look Jeff, you've offered up backhanded advice twice now in this thread. I'll offer up my honest feedback to you: you come across as rude and obtuse. We are having a discussion in this post about H1B, job shortages etc. Nothing I've said in any of these posts or comments is bitter or angry. You're free to read my words however you wish, but you might want to take a step back from your emotions, because they seem to have gotten the better of you.
I'm a pretty happy guy. I'm not really sure where you're getting any of your intel from, but you're wrong. Now I've corrected you twice. Anymore insisting on your part is just trolling. Your "constructive criticism" has been rejected.
What about it is normal? "Early America" allowed copyright infringement on American soil as long as the IP was stolen from foreign nations, but simultaneously enforced IP nationally and internationally on any claims made by a US company?

Do you have some examples of this? Because I hear it parroted a lot and yet the only thing people can point to is "but the US stole some designs from Brittain on some early machines" - which is not at all what we're talking about here, and was at nowhere near the scale of China's theft.
No, you could guess, surmise, postulate, theorize, but until it was proven, it wasn't known
With all the automated scamming on both sides, maybe showing up to the place dressed well to drop off a resume isn't an antiquated idea after all.
USB-C is great for 5V charging. And probably not awful for PD either.

All the weird data transport, seems like a big pile of maybe it will work, maybe it won't. I think most cables will do usb 2.0 data and probably usb 3.0 data, which covers a lot. I've managed not to need any of the other things, so avoidance seems to be pretty good. The one exception being the nintendo switch that does hdmi over usb-c, but sticking with their dock works enough for me.
OpenAI trains on sources like BusinessInsider which allow sponsored content for a price. This is how they will monetize their products, by intentionally introducing it to bias for a profit motive. It's a good thing they convinced you that its a black box, otherwise you would see this coming.
TOO LOW GEAR
Yes, after reading a bit more sources it looks like one of the engines failed 1km before landing. Not sure on why the landing gear wasn't deployed though.
> It appears that only one person (Professor Nicely) noticed the bug in actual use.

I recall a study done years ago where students were supplied calculators for their math class. The calculators had been doctored to produce incorrect results. The researchers wanted to know how wrong the calculators had to be before the students noticed something was amiss.

It was a factor of 2.

Noticing the error, and being affected by the error, are two entirely different things.

I.e. how many people check to see if the computer's output is correct? I'd say very, very, very few. Not me, either, except in one case - when I was doing engineering computations at Boeing, I'd run the equations backwards to verify the outputs matched the inputs.
Two possibilities come to mind. The first is that it's South Korea so airports are military assets that need to be secure. The other is that it's meant to protect the road and hotel south of the end of the runway from aircraft overshooting the end but that was intended for much lower speed collisions.
I think the Ergodox ez does those keys better than a standard keyboard because they are split between the two thumb clusters in the standard layout. Don't even have to move my hands to hit any of the four keys. It was one of the things I was looking for in a keyboard.
Having a computer engineering degree helps. Outside of the embedded equivalent of CRUD, you'll have to know the details of how a computer works. How memory visibility and synchronization works, what mmio is, basic assembly, interrupt concepts, etc. I'd actually recommend reading a book on operating systems. A lot of embedded devices that are pure compute require knowledge of operating systems because you're basically building software to enable a user to interact with the accelerator or sensor on the device.

I'd also learn a tool like yocto or buildroot, both tools for creating Linux images. They're not great tools, but they are widely used in creating embedded Linux images.

If you want to solve domain specific issues (like getting into DSP) or doing high speed networking, you have to find an entry level job in that field and have the requisite background. It's hard to do DSP without an EE background for example.
It's taken 20 years of a public company having to show quarter on quarter, year on year revenue increases, which has resulted in (Dark) Google squeezing dollars over quality.

I think AI companies have a bit more time to avoid a similar situation.